The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-29
IIunbuggery.

Human nature loves humbug. People
are voluntarily duped constantly. They
even willfully humbug themselves. They
shut their eyes and prefer the fictitious to
the genuine. They assume the unreal for
the real in regard even to their own per-
sonality. They kiss themselves with a
Judas kiss.
Theyrummage around in their imaginings
until they decide they exist with such and
such characteristics, while none such give
indications of their presence.
The meekest, couldn't kill-a-fy man
will conclude he is q desperate of the
deepest dye, carbon chewer from away
back. You perhaps have been puzzled to
determine just what was peculiar in n roly-
poly man, who couldn't keep the good-hu
NOR out of his walk TO save himself vet
whose light brows were wrinkled over his
mild blue eyes as he cast them mt you out
of their narrowest corner, while his gener-
ous-lipped mouth vas pursed up into a
protruding pout. Next time recognize him
as one of the above deluded dupes.
You surely have had q confding young
girl acquaintance, who is always in sea
of despair because she is fearful her heart
lessness is going to be the occasion of some
desperate act on the part of a rejected adj
mirer. When you ask her what cause she
has for her perturbation of mind, Did he
tell you he would kill HIMSELF" she SAYS.
oh, / did Tot reject him in so many words,
but when he looked at me pleadingly,
turned away, and when | turned round be
was looking another way, and did not notice
me again. | have had the same thing happen
to me before. and it always turned out
awful. can't help being such a wicked
firt."
Her look and manner ut this moment in
Dictated all the pain aud sorrow she felt ut
being so fascinating, so irresistible, while
all the time it was perfectly patent to the
most casual observer that she was nothing
of the kind; that the young cub in whom
she is interested has never given her a Sec
ond thought, If he ever gave her that first
glance. However she will go on believing
herself moving holocaust and destroyer
of mems peace of mind.
We know an old man, one Of the most
learned of citizens, whom you would ex-
pect TO be level-headed on all subjects.
His physician ordered the exercise of
horseback riding to save him from the
grave by way of an apoplectic fit, he had
grown so old and phlegmatic.
The prescription has proved so exhilarat-
ing that this fat old porpoise goes out with
the rakish Accomplishments of white
leather upholstering for his horse, while
only fade into insignihcance under the
radiance of his buccaneer coat and shining
hat.
Every lunge of his bulky body tells you
he is paying his irrepressible juvenile
tribute to this degenerate but athletic age.
The great sadness of it all is, he humbugs
no one but himself.
History and our common life is full of
these instances, which tend to show that
| our poor humanity is prone to accept per-
| sistently what it wishes to be true for the
| time.
II more often loves the strange and re-
| fuses TO accept plain reason and, too often,
good common sense.
This is a pretty good world to live in,
at any rate you can have n round, Jolly
| good time in IL il you make up your deter
mination to try to do so. However, n con-
noisseur can detect flaws in apparently
| perfect stones, and IL your digestion is
| slightly out of order, or the spring weather
gets in ahead of your spring clothes, you
| can find some things you would like to have
changed, n few you might like forbidden
| by law.
| One thing fashion says Ia growing in
] favor, aud that we should lika To sec